We’re looking for a Lead Software Engineer to join our Communities Team, which empowers businesses and creators to build vibrant, branded spaces where members can connect, share content, and engage in meaningful discussions. Communities power social interaction and collaboration across web and mobile for over 1 million active users, helping creators and agencies deepen relationships with their audiences.

As a Lead Engineer, you’ll architect and scale the systems behind posts, feeds, notifications, memberships, and moderation workflows - all while ensuring data security, privacy, and reliability in a multi-tenant environment. You’ll tackle complex problems in real-time updates, multi-tenant access control, and performance optimization while collaborating with product and infrastructure teams to shape the long-term technical roadmap. This role offers the opportunity to deliver a highly engaging experience at scale for the growing creator and business ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance systems to improve reliability, latency, and throughput across time-sensitive APIs and workflows

Own features end-to-end — from architecture and implementation to testing, deployment, and ongoing optimization.

Work hands-on with technologies like NestJS, Firestore, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Queuing Systems and Service Mesh-based microservices.

Drive technical direction across both product features and platform layers to ensure stability, scalability, and maintainability.

Integrate and optimize AI-assisted development tools, improving developer productivity while ensuring accuracy and minimizing hallucinations.

Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and AI teams to deliver impactful, user-facing features and backend systems.

Mentor and support other engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, learning, and ownership.

Proactively identify and solve performance bottlenecks, scalability challenges, and security concerns in a multi-tenant environment.